Bgraphy for John Gay the Playwright, Librettist cludg non of works, monologu, songs, scen and quizz.
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JOHN GAY
Poet and playwright John Gay was born Devon to an aristocratic though impoverished fay. Unable to afford universy, Gay went to London to… * john gay playwright *
John Gay, (born June 30, 1685, Barnstaple, Devon, Eng.—died Dec. 4, 1732, London), English poet and dramatist, chiefly remembered as the thor of The Beggar’s Opera, a work distguished by good-humoured satire and technil assurance.A member of an ancient but impoverished Devonshire fay, Gay was ted at the ee grammar school Barnstaple.
JOHN GAY
Gay’s journalistic terts are clearly seen a pamphlet, The Prent State of W (1711), a survey of ntemporary perdil publitns.